[AT] Melting it all down.(copper is the new gold)

[Phil Auten]

Charlie and Rob,
Around here, folks like y'all and Farmer 
described get a visit from the Sherriff.
I don't know about the Carolinas or Indiana, but 
the fine for simple trespassing
in Texas STARTS at $500 and goes up from there. Our county judge frowns
heavily on trespassers!  Rarely does one get off with the minimum.
If the trespassing involves hunting, the game warden gets a call and he has
more power in Texas than any other law 
enforcement officer. On top of trespassing,
violators can be charged with poaching, and that is a state jail felony.
Sounds like y'all need to speak to your 
trespassers with the Sherriff by your side.

My 2¢,
Phil


At 06:35 PM 7/18/2008, you wrote:
>Rob one thing that folks don't understand is that there is danger in being
>on someones farm.  There are laws that require a farmer to post a sign if
>there is dangerous poison on a crop or on the land but it ONLY applies if
>hired labor is required to be in the area.  If no work is scheduled there is
>no requirement to post any warning and a bunch of reasons not to.
>Therefore, someone could wander into your field and come out dead and it
>would be their fault.
>
>Years ago we logged out the woodline that boarders the fields.  There were a
>lot of nice old oak trees along the edge and I hated to cut them but they
>were in the way of equipment and they were sucking up tons of water so we
>had them cut.  There were lots of big limbs and tops left behind.  I put the
>word out in the neighborhood that anyone who wanted the wood for firewood
>was welcome to it.  They got it alright.  Every stick of it that was easy to
>cut up.  They left everything they didn't want, not where they found it in
>the woods but in the field where it was easier for them to run their saws.
>They also left their trash.  I don't mean the drink bottles and candy
>wrappers for the snacks the consumed while working.  I mean their trash from
>home. Bags of it.  Oh yeah they left the drink bottles and candy wrappers
>too.  I won't do that again.
>
>Our farm is long and narrow and it had a road all the way down it along the
>woods and a road out to the highway at both ends and one in the middle.
>Soon after the wood experience I told the tenant farmer to cut up all the
>roads and tend the land all the way to the woodline.  Most of the time I
>can't even get in the back of the field myself now without 4wd and that is
>just fine with me.
>
>Charlie
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob Wilson" <rowilson at wildblue.net>
>To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [AT] Melting it all down.(copper is the new gold)
>
>
> > Back on the farm we lived on that my father in law owns he had a rather
> > odd
> > thing happen. He stopped by and found a whole group of boy scouts set up
> > camp. He asked the leader what they were doing and he said they were
> > having
> > a weekend camp out. He asked him who owned the place and the guy says he
> > didn't know. My father in law told him he did and to pack them up and get
> > moving. The guy was ticked since he didn't understand what the problem
> > was.
> > It's like that everywhere anymore. No one respects anyone's property or
> > rights. My neighbor and his son were flying his son's new remote control
> > airplane in this nice green field and enjoying the day. The farmer across
> > the road comes over and asks the same as my father in law does about who
> > owns the place. My neighbor actually thought no one did. The farmer said
> > unless he wants pay for the wheat he's stomping on they better leave. The
> > neighbor too was irritated but left.
> > Rob